[CPEO-IRF] Joliet Arsenal (IL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Joliet Arsenal cleanup is ahead of schedule
Contaminated soil: Project is slated to end in 2015

By Kim Smith
Joliet Herald News (IL)
May 4, 2006

WILMINGTON - Cleaning up more than 23,000 acres of contaminated soil is 
a lot of dirty work.

When the project to clean up the property formerly known as the Joliet 
Arsenal started 10 years ago, it was slated to end in 2015. Now, due to 
a lot of teamwork between the U.S. Army, the U.S. and Illinois 
environmental agencies, generous federal funding and a group of 
volunteers known as the RAB (Restoration Advisory Board), the project 
could come to end late next year.

"It will take us about another year to turn all the properties over to 
the U.S. Forest Service," said Art Holz, site manager for the project at 
a special anniversary ceremony held at the U.S. Army headquarters in 
Wilmington.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/city/4_1_JO04_ARMY_S1.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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